Kennedy Hospital held a an open house to provide the community with an up-close view of the their new hellicopter and living-saving medical equipment used to service emergency response, on Saturday, January 19, 2013. (Staff Photo by Joe Warner/South Jersey Times)

WASHINGTON TWP. — With any luck, it will be the last time they’ll get to see the inside.

Brought to the Washington Township hospital from its former home in Penn’s Landing in June, the Eurocopter EC-135 has been transporting patients and donated organs to — and between — area hospitals in South Jersey, Central Jersey and Philadelphia since that time.

“We move patients from anywhere around here, to the hospital, and from one medical center to another,” said pilot Mike Rosebery, from Pittman, whose been flying for 26 years, and six and a half years behind the controls of a medical helicopter.

“It’s much faster transporting people to the neuro center here [at Kennedy Hospital] this way — this helicopter is a dual engine, and can fly about 150 mph.”

10-year-old twin brothers Matthew, center, and Steven Weinstein,right, of Turnersville help as Jefferson Hospital's Linda Reid demonstrates how to properly intubate and ventilate a patient, during a community open house at Kennedy Hospital, on Saturday, January 19, 2013. (Staff Photo by Joe Warner/South Jersey Times)

Bill Shaw, a nurse at Kennedy Hospital for the past seven years, lifted his 2-year-old daughter into one of the three rear seats of the helicopter before snapping a picture of the amazed toddler.

His wife Stephanie and 4-year-old son were similarly admiring the aircraft.

“No, I’ve never flown up in one of these — I wish I did,” said Shaw. “We came out here today because the kids like these kinds of things.

In addition to the open house on the helipad, Kennedy Hospital officials also provided tours of a trailer in which paramedics are trained in resuscitation and other services.

The mannequins taking the place of patients inside the trailers are engineered to mimic the real thing — they blink and breathe, and when something goes wrong, the eyes will begin to close and vital signs will plummet, giving the trainee more information than would a static, rubber dummy.

Jefferson University Hospital Physician Liaison John Roussis said Saturday’s event was intended to let the public in and see some of the aspects of emergency response.

“It’s about bringing people out and having them see what we have here,” said Roussis. “We have the medical crews here, and the training trailer, offering people who come today the full fundamentals of what’s going on.”